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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Liquefaction \Liq`ue*fac"tion\ (-f[a^]k"sh[u^]n), n. [L.
liquefactio: cf F. liqu['e]faction. See {Liquefy}.]
1. The act or operation of making or becoming liquid;
especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the
sole agency of heat.
2. The state of being liquid.
3. (Chem. Physics) The act process, or method, of reducing a
gas or vapor to a liquid by means of cold or pressure; as
the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
liquefaction
n : the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid
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